Global Sources Reports & Magazines for the Apparel & Textile Industry

Why Researched Reports Matter in Sourcing

A directory listing tells a buyer that a company exists; a researched sourcing report tells the buyer what the company can actually do. The Global Sources reports in this section are built on in-person factory tours and interviews with senior managers, and that method shows in what they contain: verified production capacity and machinery, quality control arrangements, export markets and shares, price ranges by product level, and an outlook given by the companies themselves to a supplier survey. Each report adds an industry overview that prices its category and maps its forces — quota and safeguard changes, material costs, capacity plans — so the profiles that follow can be read against market evidence instead of in isolation. For a buyer placing orders at distance, that combination of market analysis, company profiles, a product gallery with ordering details, and contact information is the difference between enquiring widely and enquiring well.

China Sourcing Reports: Garments, Accessories and Textiles

The China garment reports cover children's wear, denim garments, leather garments, parkas and windbreakers, sleepwear, T-shirts and polo shirts, women's undergarments, and zippers. The fashion accessory reports cover casual backpacks and schoolbags, slippers, casual footwear, computer bags, costume jewelry, hats and caps, sunglasses, leather bags and wallets, watches, and luggage. The China textile reports cover home textiles — 90 suppliers, 225 products, 136 pages — and knitted fabric — 72 suppliers, 168 products, 114 pages. Every title follows the same architecture of executive summary, industry overview, supplier profiles, product gallery and contact details, and every title is presented here with sample pages, so the executive summary, an industry overview, a supplier profile and gallery models can be inspected before ordering. That uniformity is a working tool: a buyer who has learned to read one report's profile template can compare a zipper maker and a polo shirt maker without relearning the format.

India Sourcing Reports

Two reports apply the same research to India, at the moment the end of the quota system made India the most watched alternative to China. The Home Textiles India report profiles 95 manufacturers and shows 175 export products across 130 pages, covering bed linen, towels, table linen, drapery and cushion covers, with India's embroidery and patchwork strengths documented in depth. The Women's Garments India report profiles 84 manufacturers and shows 125 export products across 117 pages, in a category that accounts for an estimated 45 percent of India's apparel shipments, with women's tops at about half of output. Read beside the China titles, the India reports let a buyer compare two supply bases on the same evidence — the same profile points, the same gallery format, the same survey questions — which is exactly the comparison a dual-sourcing decision needs.

The Magazines: Fashion Accessories, Garments & Textiles, Baby & Children's Products

Alongside the reports sit the Global Sources magazines: the Fashion Accessories Magazine, the Garments & Textiles Magazine, and the Baby & Children's Products Magazine. A report is a deep freeze of one category at one researched moment; a magazine is the running record that keeps a category current between reports, following new products, suppliers and trade developments issue by issue. Buyers typically use the two together — the report to build and benchmark a shortlist, the magazines to watch the category afterward. The Apparel and Textile Sourcing Reports and the fashion magazines have been developed and maintained by Global Sources, and Apparel Search works in association with Global Sources to promote these resources to the international fashion community. The sourcing reports directory and the magazine directory, both linked from this page, lead to every title.